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Florists Dill or Compact Dill
‘Mariska’ is a little known compact variety of Dill often referred to as ‘Florist’s Dill’. With starry bright yellow flower heads and abundant foliage it is an excellent variety for use as a cut flower, yet is still a great variety for the kitchen.
Artichoke (Heritage, pre 1600's)
Large and tasty heads of green buds have made Green Globe one of the most popular varieties of Artichoke. They are perennial plants and will produce more heads with each successive year. This old heirloom variety is a great delicacy, steam or boil and serve with melted lemon butter or hollandaise sauce.
Precoce D'Argentuil,
Heritage (France 1885)
Earlier and hardier than most varieties, Asparagus ‘Precoce D’Argentuil’ is an excellent choice for the impatient gardener. Highly esteemed for its thick, rose-purple spears with tender tips and an excellent flavour. In France it is the traditional variety used to create the popular white asparagus.
Eggplant. Heritage (USA 1910)
Black Beauty was introduced about 1910 and has long been popular with home gardeners. An excellent quality variety, early to mature it gives and abundant crop of tasty fruits that are clear of the ground. Sturdy plants produce high yields of glossy, purple-black, pear-shaped fruit.
Large Leaf Basil or Crispum Basil
Heritage (Italian)
Lettuce leaf basil is a popular old Italian variety, a large leafed variety of Sweet Basil and one of the most productive of all basils. With very large, crinkled and highly aromatic leaves, it adds the texture of leaf lettuce while packing a tasty basil flavour to brighten up your summer sandwiches.
Purple Basil
Basil ‘Red Rubin’ is a purple version of Italian large leaf basil, a multi-purpose variety that is one of the mainstays of many herb gardens. Distinguished from other purple basils by its sweeter aroma and flavour, the rich, dark purple leaves are more consistent in colour than some of the other purple basils.
Also known as Mexican Spice Basil
Cinnamon basil has attractive purple growing tips and pink flowers in summer. This variety is true to its name with a cooler flavour and distinct cinnamon aftertaste. Use this herb just as you would use sweet basil.Organic seed.
Greek Basil
Greek Basil is an improved variety of ‘Bush’. It has a tight compact growing habit and forms a perfectly spherical bush appearing as though having been pruned. The size and scent make it suitable for growing in virtually any horticultural department:- beds, borders, path edging or even window boxes.
Basilic Citronne, Basilico Limone
One sniff and one would swear one was in a lemon orchard. Lemon Basil contains citral and limonene. Mildly flavoured, it initially tastes almost the same as most basils, but with a lovely clean aftertaste. Use it to marinate, grill, finish, or dress salad dressings, sauces, fish dishes and desserts. It also makes a wonderfully citrus pesto. Organic Seed. 
Basil, Heritage (Italian, Pre 1879)
Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. It is THE Basil for pesto and a wonderful companion plant.
Basil. Heritage (Italian, Pre 1879)
Sweet Genovese is often associated with Italian cuisine. Basil is native to the region surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. This delicate herb has with an intense, spicy-sweet, aroma and a slight anise-like undertone. Organic Seed. 
Bai Horapa
Thai Basil is commonly used in the cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. It has has a stronger taste and an identifiable liquorice flavour which is more stable under high or extended cooking temperatures than that of sweet basil. Organic Seed.
Broad Beans, Fava beans or Horse Beans.
Heritage (Pre 1913)
Broad Bean Aquadulce is highly prolific, easy to grow and one of the most delicious in terms of flavour. It is universally recognised as being best hardy broad bean for an autumn sowing. RHS AGM.
Broad Beans, Fava or Horse Beans.
Broad Bean ‘Witkiem’ is the most versatile of vegetables and, as Hannibal Lector says it also goes perfectly with a glass of Chianti. Early to mature, it produces a good crop of plump, well filled pods with big tasty beans. Ready to harvest from June into September.
Maincrop
Beetroot ‘Boston’ is an excellent improved Boltardy selection. Uniform and refined, it produces excellent crops of smooth-skinned red globes with excellent flavour. Slow bolting, it is ideal for early sowings, this maincrop variety can be sown from early March right through to late August.
Beetroot
Heritage (USA 1892)
Detroit 2 Crimson Globe or Rote Ruben is a popular improved Detroit globe beetroot. It is a classic, main-crop beetroot which produces excellent quality, smooth skinned beets with strong skin and ox-blood flesh colour. It is recommended as a good cultivar to use for succession sowings.
Early / Maincrop
Heritage (1800's)
“The old Egyptian turnip or flat-rooted beetroot has the best flavour but is scarce.” Bob Flowerdew. Beetroot ‘Flat of Egypt’ is a very old heritage variety that produces smooth skinned roots, often heart-shaped, with a deep red, tender and flavoursome flesh.
Maincrop
Heritage (USA 1940's)
‘Golden Beetroot’ are an absolute delight. they have a slightly honeyed taste and don’t stain the dishes. After all, at the end of a long day, the last thing you want to do is get your hands dirty.
Maincrop
Heritage (USA 1940's)
‘Golden Beetroot’ are an absolute delight. they have a slightly honeyed taste and don’t stain the dishes. After all, at the end of a long day, the last thing you want to do is get your hands dirty. Organic Seed.
Starflower, Bee Bread, Blue Borage
The beautiful blue star-shaped flowers of Borage are edible with a cool cucumber flavour. Use them as garnish in fruit cups, summer drinks, wines and Pimms. Garden visitors can be converted to herbal advocates simply by offering a taste of its flower! Organic Seeds.
Starflower, Bee Bread, White Borage
The herb borage is a well known annual. Not so well known and not often written about is the equally beautiful form ‘alba’ which boast pure white, perfectly star-shaped flowers. Each flower is centred by five black stamens which heighten the drama. The flowers are edible, garden visitors can be converted to herbal advocates simply by offering a taste of its white flower.
Starflower, Bee Bread, Blue Borage
Borage is one of the most reliable sources of blue flowers, often flowering lavishly for weeks after sowing. The beautiful blue star-shaped flowers are edible and very important for bees, providing pollen and nectar in prodigious amounts.
Aka 'Red Ball' or 'Brusselberry' sprouts.
‘Red Bull’ is a specialist sprout variety from Europe, it offers smaller yields of dark red sprouts, but has a milder, delicate, nuttier flavour than standard green types. The red colour is enhanced with the first light frosts. The resulting sprouts are small and tasty, and look gorgeous in the pan and on the plate.
Burdock Root, Gobo
Regarded as both a nutritious vegetable and curative medicinal, the Burdock root is widely used in all sorts of cuisines from the classic English summer drink to the classic Japanese ‘Kinpira’. Seeds can be also sprouted like bean sprouts; nothing goes to waste with this plant.
Autumn / Winter Cabbage
Heritage (1860's)
Cabbage ‘Red Drumhead’ is a popular deep red heirloom variety which produces densely packed leafy heads with dark red, solid hearts in late summer through to Christmas. This old hardy variety from the 1860s is easy to grow, stores well and is remarkably tasty and sweet.
Cardamom
Black cardamom or Nepal cardamom is are very popular in Indian cuisine and is the world’s third-most expensive spice, outstripped in price per weight only by saffron and vanilla.
Maincrop / Late variety
One of the best main crop varieties available, with a consistent deep red colour and conical roots, carrot ‘Autumn King’ can be grown as a maincrop or late variety and is an excellent variety for storing. RHS AGM. 
Maincrop / Late variety
Unless you have tasted the stunning sweetness of a carrot pulled from your own garden in the dead of winter, you haven’t really tasted a carrot. Autumn King resists splitting and stores well just left in the ground. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)
Famously named after the town in the Netherlands from where it originated, Carrot Berlicum is a long, cylindrical shaped, stump rooted type of carrot, suitable for maincrop production. It has good colour and texture, a high sugar content, fine carrot flavour and a crisp tenderness.
Maincrop & Successional
Heritage (France mid 1800's)
Originating from the Chantenay region of France. Carrot ‘Chantenay 2’ is deservedly well known, a popular small variety of carrot with orange-red flesh and a fine crisp texture. Particularly popular with children because of their sweet crunchiness and small size, one carrot is perfectly designed to fit snugly into the hand of a small child.
Second Early & Maincrop
‘F1 Flyaway’ is the result of over 15 years breeding, an excellent carrot fly resistant variety with cylindrical roots and a good blunt end. Most importantly they are naturally succulent and sweet, with good skin and flesh colour. Crops early summer through to autumn.
Second Early & Maincrop
Heritage (1927)
Originating from Nantes in France, Nantes 2 is an excellent variety for early and successional crops producing uniform blunt-ended cylindrical roots. With good carrot fly resistance, it is virtually coreless with a tender texture and sweet flavour. Organic seed. 
Self blanching, Summer celery.
Heritage variety (1886)
‘Golden Self Blanching’ produces thick, crisp, juicy, aromatic stalks of celery with solid hearts that have no hint of bitterness or stings. This dwarf variety is ideal for smaller gardens and does not need blanching. It produces naturally cream-coloured stalks with a crisp, crunchy texture and mild flavour.
Cutting or Soup Celery. Chinese Kintsai
Cutting celery or Leaf celery is the type that is used in Europe. It looks similar to parsley but tastes like regular stalk celery, but with a slightly stronger, herbier taste. It is a darker green, with thin, rounded, flexible stalks and curly, aromatic leaves; it is much easier to grow than its big brother.
English or Lawn Chamomile
Also spelt Camomile
Camomile is a most useful plant. It can be used to make beautiful lawns and raised beds, an infusion of the plant is an ideal family remedy, calming and sedative, perfect for restlessness or travel sickness, while for gardeners the tea is effective as a spray to prevent ‘damping-off’ of seedlings
Leaf Beet, Ruby Chard
With more colours than Joseph’s Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Swiss Chard ‘Bright Lights’ is so beautiful to look at that its easy to forget that its real strength is as a vegetable. RHS AGM.
Leaf Beet, Heritage (Italian 1914)
Producing wonderful, heavily crumpled green leaves with white mid-rib and veins, Swiss Chard ‘Lucullus’ is a particularly prolific, hardy variety. Deliciously succulent simply cooked and served with butter. RHS AGM.
Leaf Beet, Ruby Chard.
Swiss Chard is probably the most under appreciated of all vegetables. One of the easiest of all vegetables to grow with a long cropping season, it tolerates poor soil and inattention. With crimson-stemmed leaves, it makes a striking contrast in any salad. RHS AGM.
Leaf Beet, Ruby chard
Worth growing for the colour alone, Red Chard will give tasty spinach type leaves for up to 12 months from a single sowing. It is a good choice for the beginner or busy gardener. The striking deep green leaves with red veins are a beautiful addition to any garden. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Brusseler Winter
Chervil ‘Massa’ has a sophisticated yet gentle, aniseedy warmth. It is a dark green selection with smooth leaves and good plant vigour, it has better cold tolerance than standard Chervil and is used for autumn sowings, it also bolts much later.
Chives
These easy to grow chives are one of the famous fines herbes of French cuisine. Easily raised from seed, they are perennial bulbs that spread to form neat tufted clumps, ideal for edging beds and paths. They are particularly attractive when in flower and are a favourite of bees and other pollinating insects.
Knitbone, Bruisewort, Healing herb, Miracle herb.
To the organic gardener, Comfrey is invaluable. It’s easy to grow, easy to use and incredibly beneficial to the garden. Used to make organic liquid feed, it is especially valuable on crops that benefit from high doses of potassium. Organic Seed.
Chinese, Mexican or Indian Parsley
Most gardeners appreciate that home grown herbs are infinitely superior, but try growing Coriander – the difference can be quite startling. “Slobolt” is a variety for leaf production that performs well under organic production techniques and is resistant to running to seed. Organic Seed.
Herbe Sainte-Marie, Alecost
Costmary is one of the most interesting and complex of all herbs. With an aroma which has been described as like garden mint with hints of balsam it can be used for many purposes, culinary, medicinal or ornamental.
Also marketed as Crystal Apple
Heritage (1894)
Lemon Cucumbers are a very old variety cultivated since in 1894. Each fruit is the size of a small apple, hence it was known as ‘Apple Cucumber’, but as its fruit is a pale yellow in colour it is often called ‘Crystal Lemon’. Very similar to a typical cucumber, with tender pale greenish skin and sweet flesh.
Outdoor, Ridge Cucumber
The original Marketmore was released in 1968, it is now firmly established as one of the ‘Greats’ in the cucumber world, very reliable and disease resistant it produces a large amount of fruit which usually grow to over 20cm in length Perfect for salads and with fresh, crisp and mild flavour.
Outdoor, Ridge Cucumber
Marketmore is a fantastic slicing cucumber. Reliable and productive and resistant to the diseases that can blight so many cucumbers. Pick daily for the most sublime cucumber experience. RHS AGM. Organic Seed.
Indoor or Outdoor Cucumber
Cucumber ‘Tanja’ is a premium European open-pollinated slicing cucumber. With beautiful, long, firm and bitter-free fruits, is it suitable for both greenhouse and open air cultivation in you garden and can be harvested over an unusually long period. Organic Seed. 
Heritage variety (English 1897)
Cucumber ‘Telegraph Improved’ is an improved strain of this superb heirloom variety. It is an excellent choice for cool greenhouse or cold frame growing. This reliable variety gives medium-long dark, smooth-skinned fruits with a excellent mild flavour.
Gherkin, Cornichon or Pickling Cucumber
Heritage (French, late 1800's - 'Improved Bourbonne')
Cucumber, ‘Parisian Pickling’ is the ideal cucumber for use in pickling and for eating fresh in salads. The fruits can be harvested while small and young at around 50 days for pickles or left to mature to 67 days for slicing cucumbers. Suitable for indoor and outdoor sowing and ideal for container growing.
Jira or Zi yar
Cumin has a richness of history that gives it a special place in the world of spices. It has a distinctive flavour and aroma and is easily grown in cooler climates. The seeds are typically dried and used as a condiment.
Dandelion, Clockflower, Tell-The-Time, Blowball, Puffball, Priests Crown
Dandelion is reviled by lawn manicurists yet, like Burdock, it is one of the most esteemed herbs in healing, the benefits are endless. The young raw leaves can be used in salads or cooked as a vegetable, the leaves contain more iron than spinach and are a excellent source of vitamins.
Whether your interest lies in medicinal herbs or simply its decorative qualities, growing Feverfew can be a welcome addition to any garden or allotment. Feverfew is a good companion plant and a natural insect repellent. Ideal for planting around outdoor seating areas and pathways
Chinese leek, Oriental garlic chives, Ku chai, Koo chye or Gau choy
A relatively new vegetable in the English-speaking world but well-known in Asian cuisine, the flavour of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder. Both leaves and the stalks of the flowers are used a stir fry ingredient. The flowers may also be used as a spice.
Hops
Humulus lupulus, is a climbing hardy herbaceous perennial. Hops are the female flower cones or “strobiles” of the plant. The hop vines, called bines, are usually grown up strings called a hopfield or hop garden.
Leaves and shoots are eaten either cooked or in salads, the flavour is said to be delicious. Hops are used as a sedative and relaxant. Sleeping on a pillow filled with hops is said to help insomnia.
Purple Kohlrabi
‘Azure Star’ is a highly regarded purple kohlrabi from Europe, considered to be one of the finest. It is the earliest blue-leaved, purple Kohlrabi and is also the most delicious. Raw or cooked, it is superb eating, Azure Star sets a new standard for excellence. Organic Seed.€2.45
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